CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka today launched a 213 km cycle rally from Bhadrachalam to Khammam to protest the fuel price rise the country has been witnessing. Before the launch, he also performed a special pooja for its success.
Speaking to media persons at the camp office of local MLA Podem Veeraiah, along with MLC T Jeevan Reddy, former minister Balaram Naik, former MLC Potla Nageswara Rao, Khammam DCC president Puvvalla Durga Prasad and Khammam party president Mohammad Javeed, the leader slammed both the state and the union governments for their "anti-people" policies.
He alleged that the country had gone back 40 years due to the attitude of the two governments on the issue of fuel prices, and said, "The people of India will now be forced to use bicycles once again as they are no longer able to afford car fuel owing to the steep increase in the prices of petrol and diesel. Both the Centre and the TRS government have successfully burdened the people of the state and the country with these new prices."
"Instead of ruling in such a dictatorial manner without a care for the people, both Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao should work to arrest the fuel price rise. They should support the people who are just about recovering from the economic devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic," Bhatti Vikramarka added.
Accusing the Modi government of now trying to economically disempower the people of Khammam through its alleged plans to privatise PSUs in the district, he urged the graduate voters of the district to vote for the Congress' candidate for the upcoming MLC elections in the Warangal-Nalgonda-Khammam constituency, Ramulu Naik.
The CLP leader claimed that most of the voters had become graduates after studying at educational institutions established by the Congress, and warned them against voting in favour of the TRS' candidate, incumbent MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, and claimed that this would be suicidal as he was "responsible for the privatisation of education" in the state.
During the rally, Bhatti Vikramarka will reportedly also spread awareness about the other problems plaguing Telangana.
The leader had recently gone on another yatra - a
fourteen-day Raitulatho Mukhamukhi (Direct Interaction with Farmers). During the yatra, he covered vast tracts of Telangana to spread awareness about the Centre's "black agrarian laws" among the state's farming community.